#1050125 gnus: cannot read signature from fifo

Package:
emacs
Source:
emacs
Submitter:
Kamil Jonca
Date:
2026-03-07 16:21:02 UTC
Severity:
normal
#1050125#5
Date:
2023-08-20 12:08:34 UTC
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Recently I upgraded emacs from 28.2 to 29.1 - and I was not able to create any message ('a' command on group)
debug shows:

Debugger entered--Lisp error: (error "Maximum buffer size exceeded")
  message-insert-signature()
  message-setup-1(((Newsgroups . "") (Subject . "")) nil nil nil)
  message-setup(((Newsgroups . "") (Subject . "")))
  message-news("")
  gnus-post-news(post "" nil nil nil nil t)
  gnus-group-post-news(nil)
  funcall-interactively(gnus-group-post-news nil)
  command-execute(gnus-group-post-news)

further investigation shows that problem is when ~/.signarture file is a FIFO.
( Since long time I am use  something like /usr/bin/signify --fifo=/home/kjonca/.signature )
#1050125#10
Date:
2024-03-12 10:59:24 UTC
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With
ii  emacs-lucid             1:29.2+1-2+b1      amd64        GNU Emacs editor (with Lucid GUI support)
it seems to work correctly again, so I think we can close this.
KJ